Description Small to moderately tall, slender palm that grows in clusters, covered with reddish-brown leafstalk bases. Leaves palmate (fan-shaped), with segments joined to each other for about half of their length, and are 1–2 m. wide, light-green above, and silver underneath. Leaf petiole is 1–1.2 m long, with orange, curved, sharp teeth along the edges. Flowers are minute, inconspicuous and greenish, with 6 stamens. Trunk covered with fibrous matting. Fruit pea-sized, orange ripening to black.